The New York Times
August 15. 1948MRS. MAXWELL, 90; FINANCIER'S WIDOW
Survivor of Iroquois Theatre Fire and the Conflagration of 1871 Dies at HomeMrs. Alice Ripley Maxwell, formerly of Park Mansions, Pittsburgh, widow of Robert Maxwell, New Orleans financier, died yesterday in her home at 1158 Fifth Avenue, after a brief illness. Her age was 90.
She was said to be the oldest living graduate of Monticello College in Alton, Ill., where she was a member of the class of 1875. She later studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Born in Boston, the daughter of Abigail J. Hubbard and Simeon Dickinson Haskell, she moved as a child to Chicago, where her home was burned in the disastrous Chicago fire in 1871. She also escaped injury in 1903 in the Iroquois Theatre fire in which 602 persons died.
In 1887 she moved to New Orleans to reside there with her husband. Mr. Maxwell served in the Louisiana State Militia during the Civil War. He was a senior partner of the firm of Maxwell & Peale, cotton factors; vice president of First National Bank of New Orleans and of William Richardson, Inc., and founder of the Mechanics and Traders Life insurance Company.
After her husband's death in 1900 she moved to Cobourg, Ont., where she resided until 1916, when she moved to Pittsburgh. There she was a member of the Allegheny County League of Women Voters and the Twentieth Century Club. She was a member of the Shadyside Presbyterian Church in New York.
Mrs. Maxwell, who was the mother of the late R. Elliott Maxwell and the late Allison R. Maxwell of Pittsburgh, leaves five grandchildren, Alison R. Maxwell Jr., Robert McCook Maxwell, G. Latimer Maxwell and Mrs. Chistopher Oliver of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. George Packard of Rochester, N. y., and seven great-grandchildren.
North County Times (Escondido, CA)
April 12, 2001VISTA - J. "Scotty" Haskell, 88, died Thursday, March 29, 2001, from complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Born June 4, 1912, in Alhambra, he worked for the Mobil Oil Co. until his retirement in 1978. He moved to Oceanside in 1978, where he lived at the Lamplighter Mobile Home Park until 1996.
Mr. Haskell was preceded in death by his wife, Marion Haskell, in 1996.
He is survived by sons William S. Haskell of Vista and David E. Haskell of Orangedale; daughter Helen L. Molles of Seal Beach; grandchildren, Brian and Krystal Molles of La Jolla, Rhyss Haskell of Orangedale; and great-grandchild Briane Molles of La Jolla.